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Simon Gikandi was born on 30 September, 1960 in Kenya, is an A kenyan emigrant to the United States. Discover Simon Gikandi's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 68 years old?
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Kenya |
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Kenya
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Simon Gikandi Height, Weight & Measurements
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Simon Gikandi Net Worth
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He is the Class of 1943 University Professor of English at Princeton University.
He is perhaps best known for his co-editorship (with Abiola Irele) of The Cambridge History of African and Caribbean Literature.
He has also done important work on the modern African novel, and two distinguished African novelists: Chinua Achebe and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o.
Simon E. Gikandi (born 30 September 1960) is a Kenyan Literature Professor and Postcolonial scholar.
Gikandi has also held positions at University of Massachusetts-Boston (1987–91), Harvard University (1989-90), and California State University- Bakersfield (1986–87).
From 1991 until 2004, Gikandi taught at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, as a faculty member in the Comparative Literature department.
He is the author of many articles and books including Writing in Limbo: Modernism and Caribbean Literature, Maps of Englishness: Writing Identity in the Culture of Colonialism (Cornell University Press, 1992), and Ngugi wa Thiong', (Cambridge University Press, 2009), which was a Choice Outstanding Academic Publication for 2004, and is co-author of The Columbia Guide to East African Literature in English Since 1945 (Columbia University Press, 2007).
He is the co-editor of The Cambridge History of African and Caribbean Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2004) and the editor of the Routledge Encyclopedia of African Literature (Routledge, 2003). His latest book is Slavery and the Culture of Taste (Princeton University Press, 2011).
This text was widely acclaimed, earning many academic awards.
He is currently editing Vol. 11 of The Oxford History of the Novel in English: The Novel in Africa and the Atlantic World.
He began teaching at Princeton in 2004, as a faculty member in the English department.
Gikandi's 2011 study Slavery and the Culture of Taste has received various honours, including:
In 2019 he became the president of the Modern Language Association.
Gikandi was born to a Presbyterian family in Nyeri, Kenya.
He graduated with a B.A [First Class Honors] in Literature from the University of Nairobi.
He was a British Council Scholar at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland from which he graduated with a M.Litt.
He has a Ph.D. in English from Northwestern University.
His major Fields of Research and Teaching are the Anglophone Literatures and Cultures of Africa, India, the Caribbean, and Postcolonial Britain, the "Black" Atlantic and the African Diaspora.
He is also interested in the encounter between European and African languages in the modern period, literature and human rights, and writing and cultural politics.
